January 2010
36 posts
“She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence, she said, “You don’t want to talk to me, do you?” I took my daybook out of my knapsack and found the next blank page, the second to last. “I don’t speak,” I wrote. “I’m sorry.” She looked at the piece of paper, then at me, then back at...
“Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite,...”
RIP J.D Salinger
“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.”
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
Some interesting last words
‘Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l’ai pas fait exprès’ ‘Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.’ - Marie Antoinette. As she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.
‘I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not...
“I wrote a poem. Nobody cared.”
– Joe Heaps Nelson, when asked to summarize his life in six words. From ‘Six Word Memoirs’
“The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It’s in a million little pieces. I’m afraid I can’t help you. Why? There’s nothing you can do. Why? It can’t be fixed. Why? It’s broken beyond repair. It’s in a million little pieces.”
- from ‘a million little pieces’ by james...
someday you won't
“Tom’s first superhero girlfriend was Someday. She had red hair, a compact frame and two superpowers: an amazing ability to think big and an unlimited capacity to procrastinate. Someday had never used her superpowers in combination until one Sunday morning, three months after she’d started dating Tom. They were lying in bed. Someday was staring at the ceiling.
‘Imagine...
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am....”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via julie911) (via quote-book)
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“I wish I were a poet. I’ve never confessed that to anyone, and I’m...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
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Here is a funny joke.
“What are you going to do with your Philosophy degree?” “Think about being unemployed.”
(I am going to do English and Philosophy at university in September)
currently reading
Mostly picked it because the cover was pretty.
devotchka - how it ends
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his son is working for the Daily Mail, it’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer, paperback writer.
- the beatles